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The Nigger Of The Narcissus

The Nigger Of The Narcissus

Conrad, Joseph

Hardcover

Fiction AnthologiesBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1169245676
ISBN13: 9781169245679
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Nigger of the Narcissus is a novel written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1897. The story follows the journey of a group of sailors aboard the merchant ship Narcissus, as they make their way from Bombay to London. Among the crew is James Wait, a black sailor who is gravely ill and becomes a burden to the rest of the crew. The novel explores themes of race, class, and morality, as the crew struggles to come to terms with their own prejudices and the difficult decisions they must make in order to survive. The book is written in Conrad's signature style of introspective, psychological exploration, and is considered a classic of English literature. Despite its controversial title, the novel is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of human nature and the complexities of the human experience.Meantime the Narcissus, with square yards, ran out of the fair monsoon. She drifted slowly, swinging round and round the compass, through a few days of baffling light airs. Under the patter of short warm showers, grumbling men whirled the heavy yards from side to sine; they caught hold of the soaked ropes with groans and sighs, while their officers, sulky and dripping with rain water, unceasingly ordered them about in wearied voices.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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